Regarding consent videos, at least in Ontario where this trial took place (and I assume in Canada as a whole), they are useless for determining whether there was consent for each act. The law says that consent has to happen at the moment something takes place.
The judge used consent videos in this case, both the one recorded without her knowledge during the activities and the one after, to get an idea of her level of intoxication. It was the judges assessment of those videos and the ones showing her leaving the bar and hotel, that she wasn't as intoxicated as she said she was, not that she was or wasn't consenting.
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